Installing: When installing Mageia 5 in UEFI mode, grub2 is the default bootloader and will be installed and set up automatically. If you have a dual mode 'BIOS', make sure you boot in UEFI mode and if using a USB stick for the install media, prepare the stick using isodumper, making sure to check the 'for UEFI' check box. If you already have other operating systems on the machne you will already have an EFI System Partition (ESP). This should be detected automatically and the moint point /boot/EFI will be suggested as it's mount point at the partitioning stage. -------------------------------------- NOTES for MAC users: (these may be out of date but are left here as they may be useful) On Mac EFI systems there several options - see also https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UEFIBooting#Make_the_firmware_launch_GRUB2_.28U.29EFI_as_default After installing the grub2-efi rpm: 0. prepare the EFI directory: boot_root=$(df /boot | awk '/^\// {print $6}') efi_dir=$(readlink -f ${boot_root}/EFI) # will be /boot/EFI or /EFI mkdir $efi_dir 1. If you have rEFIt: mv -T /boot/grub2 $efi_dir/grub2 ln -s $efi_dir/grub2 /boot/grub2 2. Otherwise if you are using the Apple bootloader: mv -T /boot/grub2 $efi_dir/BOOT ln -s $efi_dir/BOOT /boot/grub2 mv /boot/grub2/{grub.efi,BOOTIA32.EFI} # if on i386 mv /boot/grub2/{grub.efi,BOOTX64.EFI} # if on x86_64 For further configuration see the above UEFIBooting wiki page.